New Delhi/Chennai, March 21 AMMK general secretary T T V Dhinakaran said on Saturday that he discussed a strategy to defeat the DMK in the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly elections during his meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The meeting with the BJP leader did not focus on seat-sharing, he said. They discussed how the NDA constituents should work together in all 234 Assembly constituencies and ensure the NDA's victory.
"He gave me some instructions and advice. That's why I came here," Dhinakaran told reporters about his meeting with Shah.
Dhinakaran said he met the Union Home Minister mainly for this purpose, and "seat-sharing will be finalized amicably within the next two to three days, only in Chennai."
The chief of the Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam said, "We will fight against the corrupt DMK government. The people are with us. We will surely win and form the AIADMK-led NDA government in Tamil Nadu."
In response to Chief Minister M K Stalin's criticism that Palaniswami frequently visited Delhi and held talks with BJP leaders, thus strengthening his claim that the upcoming Assembly election was a fight between the Tamil Nadu and Delhi teams, Dhinakaran asked the media, "Why, don't you like us coming to Delhi?"
"Why do you want to repeat what the DMK says? We know what they did in Delhi in the past. Stalin is apprehensive of defeat in the election, and that's why he is talking about the TN team vs Delhi team," he said.
In a lighter vein, he remarked that the CSK has many non-Tamil players, including its captain. "Why doesn't the Chief Minister protest against this?"